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Crooned Illinois' Republican Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen, who parts his metaphors in the middle: "First we have the winter of discontent, then we hathe balmy breezes of spring, the refreshed earth. When the fishing and voting season comes, tantrums, testiness, gripes begin to fade. That's the time to get the show on the road." This was merely Dirksen's way of saying that he hopes Senator McCarthy will quit tossing tantrums at the G.O.P. Administration in time for the party to take advantage of Joe's touted vote-getting skills...
Unformmatcly the transitions between the picture's different stories consist of fade outs where the curtain the film rather episodic. With the same characters throughout (it is not a collection of unrclated stories as was Maugham's Trio), there is some unity, but the ship alone holds the picture together as a sort of picaresque hero, and a ship lacks vital interest as a hero...
...thumb himself, introduced "McCarthyism" into the Harry Dexter White case, and Joe made the speech in which he tried to set himself up as the issue in the 1954 congressional elections, an issue which Eisenhower has emphatically said he does not want. Eisenhower & Co. have failed to make McCarthy fade away, and that failure is going to hurt in the fall of 1954 if it has not been corrected...
...Names are dropped much more readily than they are added. Writers who turn out one important book and then fade out quickly join the "noncurrent" (i.e., dropped)' list. Death or conviction for a crime are automatic reasons for dropping a name, although after death the name may turn up in Who Was Who. Alger Hiss went out after he was convicted of perjury. German-American Bundsman Fritz Kuhn as well as Communist Boss William Z. Foster were knocked out for being too "notorious." No sports figures were included until 1943, when the rule was changed. Among the sports figures...
Before Bulldog quarterback Bob Brink could even fade back, Bill Meigs and Weber were on top of him, and the Elis were four yards further away from a touchdown, with one play left...